Here’s the latest:

Today, the young woman of the couple I’d talked about met me for a while. She is not over her pain in the least…but hope of a reconciliation are receding to the point of non-existence. She feels that if there had been an actual other woman, she might have been to bear it better, rather than feel that her husband just lost interest in her. Today she talked about their early days together, when he’d said they’d be friends forever. And she wept for what had been. The husband now says he is not even particularly interested in divorce; but she says that a marriage without love is truly ended.

Nature’s creatures spin the silk Right across the leaves: The magic spans the twigs, the grass: Over the seeds, and sheaves.

If it is on, I must turn it off.

The background: